Oddest foods moms craved during pregnancy

COMMON ailments like swollen feet, fatigue and frequent urination are par for the course in pregnancy, and for many women, so too are strange cravings that may pop up at the most unexpected times.

Below mothers share odd cravings they had during the nine months of bonding with their bundles of joy.

Olivia F, teacher:

I had a craving for Supligen.

Chelsea C, lawyer:

I am not a lover of these things, but I wanted a lot of soup, porridge and pickled onions. Normally, I wouldn’t think about eating those things.

Sandra K, stay-at-home mom:

I wanted ketchup on everything.

Karla S, student:

Chalk. I used to eat it as a child but I had stopped for years. When I was pregnant with my son I craved chalk.

Alisia H, housewife:

When I was pregnant I wanted sandwiches every day and they had to have mustard on them. So the house could never be without mustard. I found myself crying when there wasn’t any mustard. My family still teases me about it.

Dorritt S, practical nurse:

Johnson’s baby powder! Every bottle of powder that I’d buy I’d eat it off. And my son ate it as a baby too, up to age two.

Elizabeth B, teacher:

A lady in the community where I grew up ate coal when she was pregnant. The same coal that you use to catch fire. She would just use a stick and take out the coal from the fire to eat it.

Kimesha T, cashier:

I could not stop eating tinned sausage. It was so strange because ordinarily I don’t fancy canned products.

Nickoya R, lawyer:

I was obsessed with pear (avocado), and I don’t just mean eating it with a meal — I wanted it deep fried, crushed into mashed potatoes and mashed green bananas, incorporated into omelettes, and once I even had a peanut butter sandwich with pear. I had pear with soup, with porridge, and I would even sit down, cut one up, and eat it as a meal by itself.

Jamelia P, caterer:

Mangoes. Luckily it was mango season when the cravings started, because I wanted mangoes all day long. We had a black mango tree in the yard and my husband would have to climb the tree and pick several dozens and I would just sit under the tree and eat until I couldn’t move. I can’t stand to eat mangoes now though.